How to Create Graphic Designs Lettering
One of the most important things you can do when creating a website or an advertisement is to have impressive lettering for your text. While there are certainly a plethora of ready-made fonts and styles you can choose from, many of them free, you might decide that you would rather create your are unique letters. One way to do this is to apply graphic images to your letters. At one time this would have required consulting a professional graphics artist and spending a fair amount of money. But if you have access to a good graphics program like Photoshop or the freeware program GIMP, you can easily do this for yourself.
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Load the graphic image you want to apply to your lettering design to onto your computer by either connecting a digital camera and transferring the image directly, or you can scan the image in using a scanner set to a relatively high resolution (600).
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Open Photoshop (or other photo program). Select "File" and click "Open." Browse to the image you saved and open it. Select "Edit" and click "Copy." Now select "File" and click "New." You will see that the pixel width and height in the new document are the same as the image you just copied. Make the document background "Transparent" and click "OK." Click on the "New Layer" icon.
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Select "Edit" and click "Paste." Now select the "text" tool and change the font and size to one you would want. Type in the text you want to use. Now right-click on the text layer and select "Convert to Shape." Now use the "Direct Selection" tool to adjust the points of the text to make it as stylized as you like.
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Click on the "Path" tab and select "Make Selection." Select the image layer. Click "Selection" in the menu and select "Inverse." Now hit "Delete" on your keyboard. The area in the image surrounding the text has been removed.
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Go back to the "Layers" panel and select the text layer again. Click on the "Delete" icon at the bottom. You now have transparent graphics text you can import into any other document.
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